Lets hope the countermeasures developed for SARS and MERS work on this variant as well.
China really needs to address the overcrowding and resulting sanitation nightmares. Maybe the world can send them the bill for this one? I am sure it would erase some trade deficits!
I would prefer a fascism form in order to bring things to rights in the US, if we are talking about changing the country's politics so radically. A little anarchy blended in, some fractionalization of the Union and boom, stabilization.